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> What is the reason for preferring gnullvm builds? Does it really matter if rustup is built using msvc, gnu or gnullvm? @ChrisDenton The past convention is that targets with...

@magic-akari Please be patient as this PR might be included after the cURL backend removal, and there is no urgent need to keep it up to date as I'll offer...

Sorry, that was a misclick: https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/rustc/platform-support/pc-windows-gnullvm.html says it's now tier 2, but without host tools. We'll keep an eye on it.

> IMO since this is not actionable from our side, closing it makes more sense to me -- it can be reopened (or we can work in a new issue)...

@ChrisDenton I see at least two: adjust the CI to include that target; adjust the shell script to allow detection for it.

Hmmm I think this would be a good opportunity to boost community engagement. I think with a bit of inspiration from https://github.com/rust-lang/rustup/pull/4290 this can be done rather easily even for...

@djc I do like this style unification with `cargo` (I imitate it in my own apps as well from time to time) but I'm afraid without proper JSON output mode...

> > but I'm afraid without proper JSON output mode this will be fragile > > I think I'm missing how json output mode is relevant to how things are...

@epage I think the analysis is, from t-rustup's POV, mostly accurate, though it turned out that people are already parsing `rustup show` output (https://github.com/corrosion-rs/corrosion/issues/590, https://github.com/rust-lang/rustup/issues/4217, etc.) so I'd expect [`rustup...

@scop In order to make the lights green again, you still have to update the UI test to match the new output. Please have a look at files in `tests/suite/cli-ui/`...